The Gift (2008) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Lou Suffern: Driven to the point of obsession.
• Gabe: Homeless man. Maybe.
• Ruth: Wife of Lou
• Mr. Patterson: Lou's boss
• Alfred: Lou's frenemy and competitor in office
• Alison: Lou's secretary
• Bud: Lou's infant son
• Lucy: Lou's toddler daughter
• Marcia: Lou's sister
• Quentin: Lou's brother
• Jessica: Add a description of this character.
• Cliff
• Harry
• Alexandra
• Melissa
• Mummy
• Geoff
• Aloysius

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• “Neither of them said anything. They didn't need to. They both knew.”

• “Time cannot be given. But it can be shared.”

• “As they learned that a son,a brother, a husband had left them as suddenly as he'd arrived.”

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• Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to let that person unravel things to get to the core.

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• Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves.

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• Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. It is time of which we do not have enough; it is time that causes the war within our hearts, and so we must spend it wisely. Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for Christmas morning. Time can’t be given. But it can be shared.

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• Gabe was referring to people like Lou who were competitive. Ambitious people, with their eye on the prize instead of the task at hand. People who wanted to be the best for all the wrong reasons and who’d take almost any path to get there. Being the best was only slightly better than being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why that was the important thing.

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• is about people, secrets, and time. About people who, not unlike wrapped parcels, cover themselves with layers and layers until they present themselves to the right ones who can unwrap them and see inside.

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• happening—big or small—can affect an entire string of people. Occurrences can join us all together.

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• ONE THING OF GREAT IMPORTANCE can affect a small number of people. Equally so, a thing of little importance can affect a multitude.

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• This is a story about people who find out who they are. About people who are unraveled and whose cores are revealed to all who count. And those who count are finally revealed to them. Just in time.

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• “May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of your soul,”

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• us up and linking us like little lights on a Christmas tree, twisted and turned but still connected on a wire. Some go out, others flicker, others burn strong and bright, yet we’re all on the same line.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Turkey
• Dublin
• Raphie
• Howth
• Ireland

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Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• Love and Friendship: Describe this theme.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Cecelia Ahern (Author)

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• Dewey: 823.92

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › Irish
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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